These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.

I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.